Leggere l’Africa in Italia. La ricezione delle letterature africane nei cinquant’anni delle indipendenze, 1960-2010

In this essay, Itala Vivan looks back at the way African literatures have beenreceived in Italy and analyses the features of such reception within the frameof the European approach to postcolonial literature on one side, and, on theother, considering the long survival of a colonial mentality in Italy. The essayembraces a long period of time and shows the growth of a more open andcurious attitude towards the African literary production, although a certaininclination for exoticism is still visible in contemporary Italy